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Re: next net release preview


On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 10:12:19PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On 25 Feb 2000 01:16:56 +0900
>>>> Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp> said:
>
>> > Please download and review it, and post comments here.
>> 
>> Many commands are build to read files in the directories below
>> `/usr/share'.  Will the installer come to install them in the
>> directories directly ?
>
>I try to change the point at issue.
>
>Many commands are build to directly read files in the
>directories below `/usr/share'.
>
>In the README file, DJ writes someting like that users may be
>able to choose an arbitrary "cygwin root" directory. But users
>can only choose the real root directory as the cygwin root
>without any additional operations.
>
>If an user choose `C:\cygwin' as the root, he/she have to mount
>`C:\cygwin\usr' on `/usr'.

Why would anyone have to mount anything?  c:\cygwin\usr will work fine.

>But '/usr/local' has been already used by various packages on
>the `Franken Archives' or the `Utilities for Cygwin' as their
>prefix directory. This mount hides the 'local' directory.  So
>he/she has to mount some of directories under `C:\cygwin\usr'
>under `/usr' one by one.

The use of c:\cygwin as a root is consistent with the Cygwin CD.

Also, this is supposed to be the base cygwin release.  I don't
see any reason to adhere to other people's conventions.  We
should be setting conventions and establishing a root and /usr
seems, to me, to be the best solution for people grabbing cygwin
for the first time.

cgf

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